Filtering Flask
Filtering Flask
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- Description
- This type of flask with a horizontal tube attached to the neck was known as a filter flask, a filtering flask, or a suction flask. The form was in use by the 1890s, for filtering under reduced pressure. It was sometimes associated with Robert Bunsen, the eminent professor of chemistry at the University of Heidelberg.
- Ref: Ludwig Gatterman, The Practical Methods of Organic Chemistry (New York, 1898), pp. 49-50.
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Apparatus and Supplies for Chemical and Biological Laboratories (Rochester, 1904), p. 207.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Flask
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 6 in; 7.62 cm x 15.24 cm
- overall: 6 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 in; 15.5575 cm x 9.525 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- CH.315225.4
- catalog number
- 315225.4
- accession number
- 218474
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Derek J. Price
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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